Join us for Sunday worship

You are welcome to join us to celebrate the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B at Sacred Heart Church. Mass will be on Sunday September 16th at 9.30am. There will be an anticipated Mass on Saturday evening at 5pm. This is what we will be singing on Sunday:Gathering: 857 Sing to the world of ChristPenitential Rite: 518 CelticGloria: 529 CelticPsalm: I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living (Ps114, p146)Acclamation: 538 ProulxGifts: 608 Take my hands and make them as your ownHoly Holy: 553 CelticMem Acclamation: 554 CelticLamb of God: 591CelticCommunion: 631 Bread of life, truth eternalGoing forth: 994 May you walk with Christ beside youFor the next few weeks, we will be using the Celtic Mass setting.

Living Eucharist

It is extraordinary what Luke squeezes into the opening verses of Acts – accounts of Ascension and Pentecost; descriptions of model church administration and life, and powerful (and effective) preaching – together with perhaps a joke (omitted from our reading this Sunday). Life in the Church is most certainly not boring. It is alive and […]

The Lectionary compilers were evidently attracted to the use of this psalm for the feast of Pentecost because of how it speaks of the positive work of the (Holy) Spirit and the consequences of the (potential?) withdrawal of the Spirit. The text, particularly when filleted down for the Lectionary, bears that interpretation but the ruah […]

Paul had all sorts of problems with the Church at Corinth! Factionalism manifested itself in all sorts of ways. Factionalism which turned people in on themselves and away from Christ. Spiritual pride afflicted some of those who possessed particular spiritual gifts – and used them to puff themselves up, rather than humbly, quietly, for the […]